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The growing trend of the cruise ship industry, together with increasing concerns over its impact on the environment, makes these ships a much relevant target for efforts toward increasing ship energy efficiency, thus ultimately reducing fuel consumption an ...

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Multi-objective optimization of a sugarcane biorefinery for integrated ethanol and methanol production

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Emanuela Peduzzi, Priscilla Caliandro, Sandro Onorati

The present study evaluates a sugarcane biorefinery producing ethanol through juice fermentation and methanol via gasification of sugarcane lignocellulosic residues and liquid fuel synthesis. Two technologies of gasification named entrained flow and circul ...

2017

Towards the sustainable cultivation of microalgae for the production of biofuels and added-value chemicals

Christof Holliger, Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel, Gabrielle Hack, Charlotte Pfistner

Microalgae represent an attractive source of biomass for biofuels and chemicals production since they can have higher energy yields per area than conventional biomass crops and can be grown on marginal land using waste, saline, or brackish water. Their use ...

2012

Biofuel production from microalgae by hydrothermal processing

Christian Ludwig, Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Frédéric Vogel, Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel, Gabriela Anca Haiduc

Introduction: Microalgae cultures represent an attractive source of biomass for biofuel and chemicals production since they can have higher energy yields per area than conventional biomass crops and can be grown on marginal land using waste, saline, or bra ...

2010

Enhanced biofuel production from microalgae by adding CO2 to stimulate lipid biosynthesis (biodiesel) and by hydrothermal processing (syngas)

Christian Ludwig, Frédéric Vogel, Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel, Gabriela Anca Haiduc, David Pauli

2010

The generation 4 project "GFR fuel and other core materials"

Manuel Alexandre Pouchon

The GFR (Gas cooled Fast Reactor) combines the advantages of a fast neutron spectrum with those of high temperatures. Given the high core outlet temperatures exceeding 800 C, it is clear that conventional metallic core structures and fuel cladding will be ...

Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD (NEA)2009

Promoting Bioethanol Production through Clean Development Mechanism: Findings and lessons learnt from ASIATIC project

Edgard Gnansounou, Arnaud Dauriat

Global climate change mitigation policies call for increasing use of biomass fuels as renewable substitutes to fossil energy resources. Quantified targets for biofuels introduction in to the market exist in the United States, the European Union, and a numb ...

2005

Emission and fate assessment of methyl tertiary butyl ether in the Boston area airshed using a simple multimedia box model : Comparison with urban air measurements

Jeremy Samuel Arey

Expected urban air concentrations of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) were calculated using volatile emissions estimates and screening transport models, and these predictions were compared with Boston, MA, area urban air measurement ...

2003

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